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Desperate Poems - Poems about Desperate

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Premium Member hearing a desperate dog cry
desperate dog cry alerting all owners my ears listen hard...Read the rest...
Categories: desperate, dog,
Form: Senryu
Premium Member Road to Nowhere
Begin on Loneliness Avenue— keep moving straight until you reach the crossroads at Regret Road. Turn left, and soon you’ll find yourself winding through Insecurity Street— watch your step, the path twists without warning. When you approach Fear Boulevard,...Read the rest...
Categories: desperate, angst, anxiety, art, conflict,
Form: Free verse



Earn It
Desperate and forlorn, A mission we mustn’t quit, For we must earn it....Read the rest...
Categories: desperate, desire, hope, humanity, pain,
Form: Haiku


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Categories: desperate, allusion, analogy, anger, angst,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Desperate prayer from a suffering husband
His wife sang so bad, he prayed god to make him deaf, He said “oh God, or let her elope with my chef, if she goes i will be so glad, the chef cooks good shall miss him...Read the rest...
Categories: desperate, angst, evil, fate, good
Form: Limerick



Dry and Desperate
This longing in my heart A yearning as deep as the ocean An emptiness in my soul A void as the depth of the hades Like a fallen branch from off the vine I am as dead as the dried...Read the rest...
Categories: desperate, absence, anxiety, depression, freedom,
Form: Free verse
O desperate soul
O, dear soul, who besieged your path to undress you? And bound your hands with threads of sorrow anew. To shatter your hopes, where sickening darkness blends, A dreadful cloak that flails the joy your life...Read the rest...
Categories: desperate, 2nd grade,
Form: Rhyme
Letting go
I feel empty, but sane A flower surrounded by rain Lost in my mess of thoughts From all the sayings I've been taught 'Life gives you lemons, Make lemonade.' But just like me, the flavor will...Read the rest...
Categories: desperate, 10th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Be Mine
Eventually, I get everything I want, Even if my list goes endlessly, But now, In this moment, All I want Are ur arms, Ur hands, Ur eyes, To be mine to look at I want something, That I can't have And it hurts Like crazy To fall asleep, With u...Read the rest...
Categories: desperate, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Desperate Hope
“Hope becomes desperate when the view is the sun.” - Quote by Poet Tomorrow seems far away, Today hides something needed, Today veils something to be seen, Tomorrow heralds...Read the rest...
Categories: desperate, hope, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Desperate Hope
While gelid breezes of winter, quiver emotions of decaying rays, And arc of horizon cedes to dusk, evoking grimace of malaise, Casting shadows tenebrous, shrouding glimmer of a slowing day, Desperate hope lingers still, in resplendence of autumn’s...Read the rest...
Categories: desperate, hope, inspiration, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Desperate Hope
Placed First in: This or That Vol 22 Poetry Contest Sponsored by Edward Ibeh ...Read the rest...
Categories: desperate, emotions, god, humanity, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Desperate Hope
Desperate Hope’s a friend of mine. All too well do I know him. He doesn’t come around much now except when things get really grim. New remedies sometimes he brings, and then my trust in him renews. But like his other...Read the rest...
Categories: desperate, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Desperate Hope
The moon, a lantern in the velvet sky, Watches with wistful, sorrowful eye. Its searching light, a guiding star, Illuminates the depths of wounds that mar. Desperate hope, like a seed in barren ground, Yearns for life; its whispers resound. A...Read the rest...
Categories: desperate, desire, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Desperate Hope
"Hope shines like a pebble in the gloom" ...Read the rest...
Categories: desperate, hope, life,
Form: Rhyme

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